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1 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines 135 Chapter 8 Methods: The Search for, Levels of, Ratings of, and Grading of Evidence Accrual of Clinical Studies Documents Four ICA members paid a recent chiropractic graduate to travel to Davenport, Iowa. For 2.5 months, she made daily visits to the Library of Palmer College. Palmer College has one of the best Archive Libraries in. Additionally, a few Palmer students were paid, by the aforementioned Chiropractors, to find and copy the clinical studies that could be located with the help of the Palmer College Librarians. Besides searching different literature indexes, hand searches were performed on newsletters, old texts, old journals, etc. Levels of Evidence Clinical studies can be of four different levels of evidence depending on the number of subjects studied, randomization, whether control subjects are included, and the sophistication of the research design. Some guidelines include consensus of committee members as evidence. This consensus is, personal opinion, and should not supersede any published clinical studies. While some groups choose to include Personal Opinion ( Level 5 ) as evidence, as discussed in Chapter 1 of this document, ICA is going to use the definitions provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Recall that there are only 4, Levels of Evidence, recognized by the United States Department of Health and Human services at Level 1. Randomized controlled trials includes quasi-randomized processes such as alternate allocation. Level 2. Non-randomized controlled trial a prospective (pre-planned) study, with predetermined eligibility criteria and outcome measures. Level 3. Observational studies with controls includes retrospective, interrupted time series (a change in trend attributable to the intervention), case-control studies, cohort studies with controls, and health services research that includes adjustment for likely confounding variables. Level 4. Observational studies without controls (e.g., cohort studies without controls, case series without controls, and case studies without controls) Searching for the Evidence For the beginning searches for evidence of chiropractic care, we included all levels of evidence (Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4) in computer searches. It was our goal to locate every original clinical study involving patients receiving chiropractic care. For additional studies, our representative, Dr. Nicole Knapp, worked closely with the Palmer College Librarians to search by hand all recent and old text books, recent and old journals, and chiropractic newsletters. Since systematic reviews and meta-analyses are not original patient studies, these were located and included in our data base, but not rated. The, Orthopedic, Physical medicine, Osteopathic, Physical Therapy, and Manual Medicine fields were searched using the following citation indices:

2 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines 136 A. Search Indices/Engines Used for Data Collection: 1. Pub Med through Medline 2. MANTIS 3. The Index to Literature 4. Google s beta version of their scientific search engine available for free use: 5. technique texts 6. Hand searches at the Palmer College of Library of Magazines, s, and Newspapers. 7. Hand searches of Research Conference Proceedings B. Search Topics and Key Word Search The search topics included the following: Adjustment 3. Manipulation 4. Spinal Manipulation 5. Spinal Manipulative Therapy 6. Manipulation 7. Case Study 8. Case Report 9. Clinical Study 10. Randomized Clinical Trial 11. Nonrandomized Clinical Trial 12. Clinical Control Trial 13. Cohort Study 14. Case Series 15. observational studies C. Study Inclusion Criteria for Guideline Analysis and Production: Studies were included if they fit the following criteria: 1. Original chiropractic study with patient outcomes (Systematic reviews and meta analysis were not included in the rating of studies); 2. source, which included spinal manipulation or spinal adjustment (a) Any technique system or chiropractic technique text book (b) Any journal article which included a clinical study with any of the key words listed above; 3. Physical Medicine, Osteopathic, Physical Therapy, and Manual Medicine care which included any of the key words listed above. D. s & Texts Searched by hand (besides Index Searches): texts were searched by hand for clinical studies. Additionally, due to the fact that some journals, depending on their date of publication, may not have had adequate key words, journals were hand searched for chiropractic clinical studies that may have been missed during computer searches. To be thorough without redundancy over the search period of 2.5 months, Dr. Knapp made lists of the journals that were hand searched. This list is provided below:

3 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines Advances in 2. American Chiropractor 3. American Medicine 4. American Clinical 5. Annals of the Swiss Assoc 6. Arkansas 7. Australian 8. Australian of 9. British of 10. Bulleting European Chiropractors Union 11. California J 12. California journal 13. Canadian 14. CCA news and Osteopathy 17. Approach to TMJ 18. Archives 19. Australia (uncataloged) 20. Conversations 21. Economics 22. Educator 23. Family Physician 24. History 25. Internists of Australia 28. Pediatrics 29. Report 30. Research 31. Society of Washington Table 1: Hand searched journals 32. Sports Medicine 33. Technique 34. Christian 35. Chronic Headache Pain 36. Clinical 37. Colorado 38. Connecticut Yankee 39. Digest of the Economics 40. Dynamic 41. Ejournals 42. European of 43. Inter Chiro Assoc Review 44. Internist (original Internists) 45. J American 46. J Australian 47. J Canadian 48. J Clinical Pediatrics (JCCP) 49. J Kansas 50. J Manipulative & Physiol Therapeutics 51. J of National 52. J Pennsylvania Society 53. J Sports & Rehabilitation 54. Manual & Manipulative Therapy 55. of 56. of Education. 57. of Humanities 58. of Medicine 59. of NeuroMusculoskeletal System 60. Vertebral Subluxation Research 61. McA 62. National of 63. New England 64. New Mexico 65. North Carolina 66. Ohio Physician Assoc J 67. Oklahoma 68. Oregon Physicians Assoc 69. Osca 70. Palmer Green Books 71. Palmer of Research 72. Philosophical Constructs for Chiro Prof 73. Research Forum 74. South Dakota Chiro Assoc Newsletter 75. Spine (no articles found) 76. Spine Staging Wellness 78. Tennessee 79. Texas 80. Texas of 81. The Chiropractor 82. The National 83. Thermography 84. Today s 85. Topics Diagnostic Radio & Adv Imaging 86. Topics in Clinical 87. United Chiropractors Assoc of Australia 88. United Chiropractors of Washington 89. Upper Cervical Monograph 90. Wisconsin J Critically Appraising the Evidence (Rating of Evidence) While there are numerous published articles, systematic reviews or meta-analyses, with different rating methods of Level 1 evidence (RCTs) on Spinal Manipulative Therapy (SMT), to the best of our knowledge, we found only two publications that rate Level 2-4 studies. 1,2

4 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines 138 Usually, t he rating methods of Level 1 (RCTs) studies do not apply to Levels 2-4 studies, and especially do not apply to Observational Studies (Levels 3 & 4). Empirical research has shown that quality scores, (which are numeric scores based on arbitrary weights given to each item in a scale), are arbitrary, unreliable, biased, and hard to interpret. 2 Instead of quality scores for Observational Studies, Juni et al suggested that a check list be used in which rating is done by whether an item is present or not present, such as met, partially met, not met. This is the same recommendation made in a Consensus Statement by the Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) Group published in JAMA in In this document, we decided to follow many of Juni s suggestions for rating Observational Studies and RCTs. 2 By giving a point for each important item that is present in a particular study, a rating method which is not biased can be performed. Instead of having committee meetings to have all members read and rate clinical studies by arbitrary weights in a scale, our ICA Committee met and had consensus on items that, when present, provide details necessary to determine exactly (a) what the patient population was, (b) what was done in the methods, and (c) what outcomes were reported in order that a study may be exactly replicated by any future study. A data base was engineered in File Maker Pro that contained questions for the reader/rater (ICA Best Practices Committee Member) of Clinical Studies (Level 1-4 publications) to answer. A point was assigned to items if they were present in the study. These were broken into five categories: A. Research Design, B. Subject Characteristics, C. type of intervention, D. frequency and duration, and E. care outcomes. Elimination of Bias with Criteria for Rating Articles There is much bias possible when guideline committees vote on the ranking/rating of published studies. To eliminate this possible bias, the ICA-BPPG Executive Committee met to determine what items, when present in manuscripts, are, essential, to reading, understanding, replicating, and extrapolating from a clinical study. For any Clinical study (including a Case Study), the following items in Table 2, if appropriate for that type of study, are needed.

5 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines 139 Research Design Blinded Yes = 2 Table 2 List of and Rating of Essential Information in Clinical Studies Level 1 RCT Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Possible NRCT Points Yes = 4 Yes = 3 Yes = 2 4 Statistical Statistics: Power Analysis Matching Long Term Analysis p-values Controls Follow-up? Performed Greater than 1 year = Year = 1 Less than.5 years = 0 Intervention Previous Failed care? Technique Provided? Modalities Described? Frequency of Care? Duration of Care? Subject data Gender Age Height Weight Demographic s Pre-Post Outcome Functional Structural Outcome Measure Outcome Outcome Measures Used Measure Used Measure Used Highest Possible Rating A data base and computer program in File Maker Pro was written by Leonard Siskin, DC (New Jersey) to collect data and rate each article. After the articles were read by Committee members, said individuals entered data into the program from the articles. If essential data were entered by a Committee member, then the computer program assigned points to the manuscript by how many essential items were present. Thus, the rating of articles was not by voting, but rather by if an article provided essential information. Grading the Evidence The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) addressed the diversity of evidence grading systems. 3 AHRQ states, Specifically, they assessed 20 systems relating to systematic reviews, 49 systems for RCTs, 19 for observational studies, and 18 for diagnostic test studies. For final evaluative purposes, the authors focused on scales and checklists. In addition, they reviewed 40 systems that addressed grading the strength of a body of evidence (34 systems identified from their searches and prior research and 6 from various EPCs). The systems reviewed totals more than 121 because several were reviewed for more than one grid. 3 Regarding the choosing a specific method of evidence rating, the authors state, In the authors' judgment, those who plan to incorporate study quality into a systematic review, evidence report, or technology assessment can use one or more of these 19 systems as a starting point, being sure to take into account the types of study designs occurring in the articles under review. Of the 19 recommended systems, a modification of Harbour and Miller 4 was chosen for the ICA rating system. Harbour and Miller 4 had modified the grading system reported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 5 Our system for grading the evidence is summarized in Table 3.

6 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines 140 Since the results of well done Case Studies have been consistent with the results of RCTs, it was decided to derive a rating method based on RCTs and Case Studies. In the ICA s computer program for entering data from clinical papers, points were awarded according to Table 2. Twentyfive is the maximum possible points for a manuscript to attain and this is very difficult to achieve. The average RCT in our ICA data base received 16 points. To derive a rating scale A-D, it was decided to divide the total points for any health condition by 16 points, termed the RCT equivalent. If two RCTs were performed on a certain health condition or if there was one RCT and the RCT equivalent (total of Level 2-4 evidence divided by 16) is equal to or higher than 7.0, then ICA has determined that this health condition is well supported by clinical evidence. Table 3 delineates this ICA rating scale. For examples of this new rating method, consider some health conditions in Table 4 from Table 1 in upcoming Chapter 10: Scale A B C D Table 3: ICA s Rating of the evidence. Description Well Supported by clinical evidence of either: 1. At least 2 positive RCTs OR 2. One RCT & 1 NRCT with positive results OR 3. one RCT and RCT Equivalent 7.0 Supported by clinical evidence of either: 1. One Good quality positive RCT OR 2. One NRCT with good Results and 2.1 RCT Equivalent 6.9 OR 3. RCT Equivalent 7.0 Supported by clinical evidence of 2.1 RCT Equivalent 6.9 Supported by clinical evidence of one or more Level 2-4 studies: 0.1 RCT Equivalent 2.0 Table 4: Examples of ICA s Rating Scale for care of Health Conditions Keywords Level I Level II Level III Level IV Total Points RCT Equivalent ICA Rating 1. Abdominal Pain B 2. Acromegaly D 3. ADD/ADHD B 4. Allergy A 5. Amyotrophic Lateral D Sclerosis 6. Anemia C 7. Angina B 8. Ankle (Pain/Injury) A 9. Ankylosing Spondylitis C 10. Aneurysm D 11. Anxiety B 12. Aphasia C 13. Apnea D 14. Appendicitis C 15. Arrested Development D 16. Arteriosclerosis D 17. Arthritis B 18. Asthma A 19. Auditory Neuropathy D 20. Autism A 21. Autonomic Dysfunction D

7 ICA Best Practices & Practice Guidelines 141 References 1. Stroup DF, Berlin JA, Morton SC, Olkin I, Williamson GD, Rennie D, Moher D, Becker BJ, Sipe TA, Thacker SB. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Metaanalysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group. JAMA Apr 19;283(15): Juni P, Witschi A, Bloch R, Egger M.. The hazards of scoring the quality of clinical trials for metaanalysis. JAMA 1999; 282(11): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Systems to Rate the Strength of Scientific Evidence. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment: Number 47. Accessed 03/27/ Harbour R, Miller J. A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines. BMJ 2001;323: United States Department of Health and Human Services. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Acute pain management: operative or medical procedures and trauma. Rockville, MD: AHCPR, 1993:107. (Clinical practice guideline No 1, AHCPR publication No )

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